Our prefabricated home build FAQ answers common questions about modular and panel home builds and prepares you to meet your builders.

Prefabricated Home Build FAQ

In this podcast, architect Laura discusses designing a modular home with a very special guest. This is the first in a series on modular and panel builds.

Interview with a Client: Designing a Modular Home

In this podcast, Laura and Holly discuss protecting your current home from freezing temperatures as well as designing a new build to survive extreme weather.

Designing Your Home to Survive Extreme Weather

Listen to our podcast about how might coronavirus change home design and adapting the way we live and planning for the new normal.

How will Coronavirus Change Home Design in the Future?

Home design budget considerations as well as understanding the difference between your home design needs and things you want but don't really need.

Home Design Budget – Wants and Needs List

If you are thinking of starting a new home design project but you're not sure where to start, these 7 essentials will get you on the right path.

7 Essentials for Starting Your Home Renovation or New Home Design Project

Residential architects in Dallas, Texas, Laura Davis and Holly Hall share the best time of year to buy things for your home.

Best Time of Year to Buy Things for Your Home

Dallas architects, Laura Davis and Holly Hall talk about ways you can help your home be more healthy, better organized, and budget-smart in the new year!

New Year’s Resolutions for Your Home

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Front porch design involved style, hospitality, and security. In Episode 86 of The Architecture Happy Hour podcast, co-hosts and architects, Laura Davis and Holly Hall talk about front porch design and what steps you can take to turn your porch from outdated to updated.

Front Porch Design: Outdated to Updated

In this home design podcast we talk about how designing a home based on where you are designing it and what style you like?

Home Design Podcast: Inside, Outside, & Upside Down

hpd architecture + interiors principals Laura Davis and Holly Hall share their thoughts and tips on architecture, from helping owners select the right architect to never being too late to begin a career in architecture.

What a lovely show! Great hosts who sound very experienced and intelligent

Lovely

Any new podcasts soon? Looking forward to it, you do a great job at this.

Muy bueno!!!

The Architecture Happy Hour

A podcast discussion of a recent listener's e-mail regarding starting architecture school later in life and navigating both family and career.

Never Too Old to Become an Architect

Larry finally gets to vent about the latest study on why you shouldn't get an architecture degree.

32: My Degree is Worth What?

Iconic architect Zaha Hadid passes unexpectedly, leaving a gap in the architecture world.

54: Zaha Hadid 1950-2016

Laura and Larry share an e-mail from a potential client about being their own general contractor and discuss what to consider when asking yourself that question.

36: Can I Be My Own General Contractor?

Holly shares stories about growing up around architecture and going from a journalism major in college to being one of only a few women in the architecture program at the University of Texas.

When Did You Know You Loved Architecture?

It's June, and as Larry and Laura prep to speak at the Texas Society of Architects convention in October, they share some tips for both interns and the architects who hire them.

Podcast: Tips for Architecture Interns

Laura and Larry skip their scheduled podcast topic to recap Larry's trip to Atlanta and discuss how architect's are portrayed and how architecture impacts movies.

16: Architects & Architecture in Movies

Laura and Larry grill their student intern Chris about his experience working in an architecture firm, his expectations, and his future.

21: Interview with an Intern Pt. 1

What to ask the architect at your first meeting.

13: The First Interview with Your Architect

Is getting your architecture license really worth it? Larry’s niece wants to know the good and the bad of having a license, as well as what you can and cannot do with or without one.

52: Is Getting Your Architect License Worth It?

In architectural podcast: Property Secrets You Need to Know, host Laura Davis will walk you through how to research a property for deal breakers.

Home Design and Property Secrets You Need to Know

Who's your favorite architect? Laura and Larry get down to figuring out just who their favorite really is (not counting themselves).

Who’s Your Favorite Architect?

Here are 7 tips to update your kitchen. In this podcast you will learn how to break down a kitchen renovation into parts to make your selections easier.

7 Ways to Update Your Kitchen

Laura and Larry respond to a listener’s questions about how designing a custom home in the US works.

Podcast: How Custom Home Design Works

Is Larry from The Architecture Happy Hour one of the only gays in architecture in Dallas? Find out in the podcast.

Gays and Architecture

The new year couldn’t get far before Laura and Larry have their annual discussion about construction costs, the unreality of HGTV, and the new challenge posed by Consumer Reports.

50: Building Costs and Reality

This episode of The Architecture Happy Hour podcast covers trends in millenial home decor, shaking up any preconceived notions we had on the subject.

Podcast: Surprising Trends in Millennial Home Decor

The pros and cons in finding a good contractor for home construction projects.

Podcast: Finding a Contractor

The best podcast episodes about true crime. For any thrill seeking podcast listeners who just can't get enough of the captivating stories of murderers and criminals. This topic has all the best episodes from many different true crime podcasts.  Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!

Best True Crime Podcasts

The best self improvement podcast episodes. From improving productivity, to finding purpose in your life to what constitutes freedom, this topic is on anything and everything that can help people to improve their lives. Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!